Iron Man franchise: The Important parts (Hair Edition)
refuse to give up my obsession
bounce bounce
yayponies replied to your post: Is it true that blood bounces on ice? I read that…
I just watched a few youtubes of hockey’s greatest bloodlosses-for science-and it does not appear that way. blood is warm so it would actually melt the top layer of ice and then possibly refreeze?
wife with the science.
Is it true that blood bounces on ice? I read that in a book as a kid and have always wanted to go to a hockey game to verify
I have no idea but maybe someone else here who knows a lot about hockey or chemistry or ice can answer because now I really want to know!
"Hockey players are different than other athletes. You get hit in the face and they get cut and you go in and you get sewed up and you come back out and play. I’ve very seldom in 30-something years seen a player that doesn’t do that.. Spit your teeth in your hands. ‘Put me in, coach.’"
Los Angeles Kings coach Darryl Sutter
No residual issues for Kopitar, only stitches « LA Kings Insider
the strange and trying journey of brothers, fathers and sons, and fans.
how do these complex relationships all boil down in my head? just that they all take work. that they all feel like they are just about to fall apart the moment before you get them right- and that sometimes it actually might take a lifetime to get any of them right. ill go through the course of why each of these relationships struck me (not that its particularly poignant other than it feels relatable to me in a very tangible way and i may have imbibed a boat drink too many in paradise as i write this).
Heaven or bust: walking out of the movie “a place beyond the pines” last week i was trying to wrap my head or heart around the whole idea. i mean, beyond my friend producing it or the Gos’ dazzling smile and way he inhabits these trashy characters that our basically mirror images of our crummy friends from way back when that our girls all hated in such a way that our girls all love him… the father son relationship is almost mythological- just too elusive- unicorns on the range, the moment immediately following a dream where it still feels real- always more perfect or tragic on film and in books. Sons are the reason that fathers return from stormy seas to safe harbors to see them - Sons are the reasons that fathers forge ahead beyond mortgages, doubles shifts, and heartbreak because there is legacy there- a pure heart, a second chance for everyone. For sons i guess being one it is more complicated. we didn’t have the wisdom of years on our side or the battle hardened insides to withstand the momentum of the world that way our dads did. but we had spirit on our side. we had that itch of pure love inside of us. i realize it took me 30 years to realize how much i meant to my dad all along- it took me becoming a dad to get it.
the difference between disbelief and the lack of belief: on brothers.. there is so much. this has been one of the hardest relationships for me to understand in my life- it is a constantly changing lack of change. it is always at odds with itself. like maybe we knew each other best when i was gorilla pressing him above my head like the ultimate warrior and brutus the barber beefcake of the (at the time) WWF- but they were only playing, acting at what we actually were brothers, together and at odds always- as separated by time and cities, that we forge as our adopted homes, as we are by the DNA we share, fingerprints that are just off of each other….
i recently thought of brothers when i found the photograph that we made the cover of SR&R, this felt more like brothers to me than almost anything i had seen since a picture of my brother and myself, i felt almost visceral in my reaction to it. it blew my mind when the notion of a burmese kid in an AC/DC shirt smoking eclipsed the idea of the hands grazing each other in the way only brothers would. and again i thought of brothers in the wake of the boston marathon bombing. i thought of the road we share as brothers, inevitably we affect each other- in some kind of almost magnetic way- we both attract each other and repel each other… and the same can be said for every decision we make. we are inextricably linked to each other forever but not destined to guide and follow the same way fathers and sons are- but in a similar way we are interlinked and can choose to follow the other down the rabbit hole. in years maybe we will excavate and begin to understand the brothers involved in the bombing of the boston marathon. because its hard this close to the tragedy to think of it in terms beyond a couple of two bit wannabes that committed an egregious act that forever changed the lives of so many people. truly anytime i find my mind wandering and begin to wonder whether the 19 year old was just following his older brother down a twisted path, the way brothers do sometimes, my mind clashes with itself and i think of the innocence of the little boy who was just waiting for his dad at the finish line when he was so tragically killed- so where there are brothers there almost always fathers and sons…
to begin again- the phoenix that is not just flames but the rebirth as well: and to be a fan… may 22, 2004: i step into an elevator with robert smith of the cure in washington dc, i cringe, i think- i cast myself deep in doubt… as we rise 8 floors in a hotel in a diplomat strip of washington dc- i try to think of something to say- something that will blow his mind- something that will make him think differently,of how much his band and his words and he means to me. i can understand the weight of when you say “you guys are my favorite band” simply because i have uttered the same- with the same shakiness and conviction…
i thought that movie was TERRIBLE but it’s great to see pete blogging again. (unless i’ve missed whatever hidden corner he’s in lately, in which case tell me!) i love that he still knows the exact date he shared an elevator with robert smith, and that he just gets it.
What Marissa Mayer Doesn't (and Does) Get About White-Collar Work | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
Rather than obsessing over the apparent dichotomy between productivity and creativity, managers and employees need to assess what type of mental work they’re doing on any given day and gravitate to where it’s best suited. Doing Mad Men–style “aha” groupthink? Stay in the office. Need to crush that 90-page memo on paper-clip appropriations? Seems like the kind of thing best handled at home, possibly in your underwear. One-size-fits-all policies—like the one at Yahoo—are too crude for today’s white-collar toil.
Why isn’t New Orleans Mother’s Day parade shooting a ‘national tragedy’?
Why isn’t New Orleans Mother’s Day parade shooting a ‘national tragedy’?
I did briefly talk about this on Sunday after finding out that a friend of mine was one of the victims. briefly because it’s painful and it’s exhausting and I still don’t want to talk about it, to be honest, but here I am.
the local FBI field office, speaking to the AP, referred to the shooting of 20 people, including two children, as a “flare-up of street violence.” it’s been normalized in the national mind as a thing that just happens in some places to certain people, and everybody nods their heads and quietly agrees that as long as what happens in the hood stays in the hood, that’s normal, and nobody needs to talk about why it happens at all.
Adam Lanza and James Holmes shoot up a primary school and a movie theatre and it sparks a “national conversation” about mental health. they’re given the benefit of doubt that something caused their attacks, some circumstance or state of mind, they were troubled. people start talking about how we can stop these tragedies before they start.
Aiken & Shawn Scott—those are the names of the two young men who’ve been arrested in NOLA today, and charged with the parade shooting—may have been gang members. NOPD seems to think so, and maybe they’re right. but nobody’s asking why these kids (19 and 24 respectively) would be in a gang to begin with, why these kids might’ve felt like they had to open fire in the middle of a parade. nobody’s asking because they assume they already know: this is just how they are. that’s what they do. a flare-up of street violence.
so there’s no national conversation, there’s no talk about how to stop these tragedies before they start, because talking about poverty and race is uncomfortable, and it doesn’t bring in ratings. because it sucks when you can’t lay ultimate causal blame on some easily identified other, like the gun lobby, or the mental health profession, or religious extremism (but only if the perp is a Muslim). admitting that we caused this shooting, America, our white supremacy and our fucked up social norms and our insistence that some lives are of greater value than others.
I don’t really know what else to say. life in New Orleans is a lot of sharp highs and lows. we have so much violence that it really does start to feel like it’s normal, even though we know it shouldn’t be, in a just society. in a just society, none of these young men (and women) would have grown up feeling like violence is a natural answer to a problem. and a 19 year old kid’s problems wouldn’t be questions of life and death.
and my friend wouldn’t be lying in the hospital for doing nothing more than dancing in the street.
(Source: csanders, via lavishness)
![It’s finally time for Star Trek: Into Darkness. I can’t actually go until Sunday but here is an extended outtake from the OUT cover story to celebrate and/or hold you over until you get there yourself. (Spoiler-free beyond the most basic of teaser trailer plot points.)
Going back through the transcript I realized that a lot of this didn’t end up making the cut of the print piece, in part because I knew he would be asked similar questions over and over and over in the junkets leading up to the premiere. But it was still great to hear him talk in such smart, big idea terms about Kirk.
CHRIS PINE ON JIM KIRK IN THE 2009 FILM: He’s young. He’s impulsive. He trusts his gut. He listens to his heart. He follows his passions, whichever way they throw him. He’s a man of the flesh, I think—his mind goes along with whatever his beating heart is telling him to move toward. That was a lot of fun to play in the first movie—the guy in the bar who’s drunk and hits on a woman and gets in a fight. That kind of microcosm—that’s the man.
ON WHAT’S CHANGED FOR CAPTAIN KIRK: Coming into the second film, I don’t know how self-aware Jim Kirk is of his own faults. I think he leads with his bravado and thinks he’s just that—just brawn and strength and courage and decisiveness. Jon Harrison, our bad guy, it’s like he puts up a huge mirror and Kirk finally has to slow down for a minute and look at all that he thinks are his strengths. I think he sees in those strengths a lot of cracks in his armor. He’s brought to his knees, and becomes very vulnerable, very, very insecure and questioning. It’s like he has a mini-—not a mini, a major existential crisis in the midst of a major, world-ending crisis. I don’t know if that’s a sign of masculinity or that’s a sign of being human, of what it means to be human. Being human is being questioning and introspective, I think.
ON PLAYING A CHARACTER WHO HELPED CREATE THE MODERN BROMANCE: I never thought about it that way. I always thought about it more like it was a dialectic of a human being. One couldn’t be more logic and reason—that’s his genetic coding. And the other was more impulsive, following his passion, his fists. That was how it was a functional relationship. You have Spock as the cold reason, you had the passion of Jim Kirk, and then you had the ironic sarcasm of McCoy, which gave the whole thing levity. That dynamic was beautiful.
ON WHY KIRK NEEDS SPOCK: The relationship [with Spock] is the core of what Kirk goes through. It’s substantial, and the arc and the trajectory of his journey is huge, almost Greek. But you can’t talk about Kirk without talking about Spock, and it’s through his relationship with Spock that he learns the greatest lessons, about loving someone to the point of being able to do away with all rules and regulations and the constraints in order to save, protect and do justice to your friend.
More outtakes, extras, answers are all tagged here.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/48eec437a9c85a861034112e2a9a9a9e/tumblr_mmwte4E7ox1qz5n75o1_500.jpg)
It’s finally time for Star Trek: Into Darkness. I can’t actually go until Sunday but here is an extended outtake from the OUT cover story to celebrate and/or hold you over until you get there yourself. (Spoiler-free beyond the most basic of teaser trailer plot points.)
Going back through the transcript I realized that a lot of this didn’t end up making the cut of the print piece, in part because I knew he would be asked similar questions over and over and over in the junkets leading up to the premiere. But it was still great to hear him talk in such smart, big idea terms about Kirk.
CHRIS PINE ON JIM KIRK IN THE 2009 FILM: He’s young. He’s impulsive. He trusts his gut. He listens to his heart. He follows his passions, whichever way they throw him. He’s a man of the flesh, I think—his mind goes along with whatever his beating heart is telling him to move toward. That was a lot of fun to play in the first movie—the guy in the bar who’s drunk and hits on a woman and gets in a fight. That kind of microcosm—that’s the man.
ON WHAT’S CHANGED FOR CAPTAIN KIRK: Coming into the second film, I don’t know how self-aware Jim Kirk is of his own faults. I think he leads with his bravado and thinks he’s just that—just brawn and strength and courage and decisiveness. Jon Harrison, our bad guy, it’s like he puts up a huge mirror and Kirk finally has to slow down for a minute and look at all that he thinks are his strengths. I think he sees in those strengths a lot of cracks in his armor. He’s brought to his knees, and becomes very vulnerable, very, very insecure and questioning. It’s like he has a mini-—not a mini, a major existential crisis in the midst of a major, world-ending crisis. I don’t know if that’s a sign of masculinity or that’s a sign of being human, of what it means to be human. Being human is being questioning and introspective, I think.
ON PLAYING A CHARACTER WHO HELPED CREATE THE MODERN BROMANCE: I never thought about it that way. I always thought about it more like it was a dialectic of a human being. One couldn’t be more logic and reason—that’s his genetic coding. And the other was more impulsive, following his passion, his fists. That was how it was a functional relationship. You have Spock as the cold reason, you had the passion of Jim Kirk, and then you had the ironic sarcasm of McCoy, which gave the whole thing levity. That dynamic was beautiful.
ON WHY KIRK NEEDS SPOCK: The relationship [with Spock] is the core of what Kirk goes through. It’s substantial, and the arc and the trajectory of his journey is huge, almost Greek. But you can’t talk about Kirk without talking about Spock, and it’s through his relationship with Spock that he learns the greatest lessons, about loving someone to the point of being able to do away with all rules and regulations and the constraints in order to save, protect and do justice to your friend.
More outtakes, extras, answers are all tagged here.
Ellen shows Chris Pine his OUT cover!!
(Source: youtube.com)
6 tips on how to avoid being screwed by a non-profit
By Jade(d)
So you’ve just graduated from college and you want to change the world. Good for you. The non-profit sector seems like a natural place for a justice-minded person such as yourself, and nonprofits are almost always hiring because the turnover rate is so high. But you may find the social justice industry to be… a little unjust. Here are a few tips and tricks for how to avoid being exploited by a nonprofit.
this is an A+ guide to surviving a job at a non-profit.
last call for chris pine questions
i can’t actually talk about him forever. ASK ME ANYTHING, though, and i’ll do my best to answer.
